What if: Starting with Dawntrail, everyone starts referring to the WoL as they/them?

[Iscah]

And it would finally free us from extremely weird gendered phrases and idioms where every instance of "man" is replaced by "woman" (as in "a dog is a (wo)man's best friend"), which completely sounds out of place and reads wrong, the biggest offender to me being "old girl" by far. "Old girl" is the reason I will never like Emmanellain. I'll reconsider my opinion of him when he stops calling me that.

The script isn't just limited to dropping "boy" or "girl" into a pre-built sentence – entire custom phrases are substituted according to the player-character's gender. They could have avoided the "old" part entirely and had him call you "my dear" if they wanted to, but they didn't go that way.